Next Step - An Editor!

So now that I've signed the contract from Cogito, and sent it back to them in one day mail, what's next? I remember that Virtual Tales assigned me an editor, but that didn't happen for more than a week after I sent them the signed contract. I wonder how long it will be until I start working with Cogito's editor. Well one thing is for sure. THE VASE is a lot closer to being a finished product now than it was when I signed that Virtual Tales contract. It's because not only did my manuscript go through one full editing process with a VT editor, but I put it through not one, but two more rounds of extensive revisions since then.

I have been in pretty good contact with one of Cogito's editors because their acquisions manager is also one of the editors. I hope I get to work with her, but it really doesn't matter who it is. I would think that, like VT, they will have a senior editor give it an editing round as well. At any rate, I know THE VASE is close. I fixed everything there is to fix in that last read through. Still, you never can be sure. If there is anything I've learned about the revision/editing process, it's that no matter how many times you've revised it there is always something about a manuscript that can be improved, and no manuscript is finished with the editing process until it has been published.

So if any aspiring writers are reading this, please take that last sentence to heart. KEEP REVISING YOUR MANUSCRIPT. That's how you will get it ready for publication. And it's the only way you'll make it better. And you do want it to be better. That's all.